ID#: 2438 Feb 12-13 : Sugar Land : Beyond the Two Migrations

Risala Foundation is pleased to welcome back Dr. Jonathan Brown and Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans for a special event in Houston.

Islam has always been a religion on the move. From the first Hijra to Ethiopia to the Migration to Medina to the dramatic spread of Islam, from the far corners of Europe to the islands of Indonesia to the migrants of present day.

What has been the effect of these movements on the Muslim world? How have they adapted to the realities of their new surroundings and what has been the outcome?

Join us for an enlightening conversation on migration - the story of Islam itself.

*All events will take place at Maryam Islamic Center.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12:

Ø   Khutbah by Ustadh Ubayd Evans

Ø  Lecture @ 7:45 PM

·         The First Mover Advantage:  Implications of the Hijra on Islamic Civilization – Ustadh Ubayd Evans

·         Clash of Conversations:  Islam in the West- Dr. Jonathan Brown

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13:

Ø  Workshop:  The Movement of a People

·         2:00 PM- Encountering Islam in the Middle East

·         3:30 PM- Islam in South Asia and Its Legacy

·         4:30 PM- The Refugee Crisis and What it Means

For more information, please visit:

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

USTADH UBAYDULLAH EVANS is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia. Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program. Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) at times.

JONATHAN BROWN is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he is the Associate Director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa, India, Indonesia and Iran. His book publications include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (Brill, 2007), Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009) and Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities' Bridging Cultures Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. His most recent book, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (Oneworld, 2014), was named one of the top books on religion in 2014 by the Independent. He has published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law. Dr. Brown’s current research interests include Islamic legal reform and a translation of Sahih al-Bukhari.